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ESPN, Turner, and Yahoo reporters won’t tip NBA Draft picks on social media this year
Multiple sources tell Awful Announcing that ESPN has instructed its reporters to refrain from revealing picks on social media before they’re announced at Thursday’s draft, breaking with how the network has operated in the past. Previously, ESPN’s crew of insiders (or at least the ones who didn’t appear on the draft broadcast) has been free to report NBA Draft picks as soon as they learn of them.
The source said ESPN’s directive not to tip picks this year was presented as an edict from the NBA itself.
Additionally, a source told Awful Announcing that other NBA partners, including Turner Sports and Yahoo (which is newly owned by Verizon), will also not tip picks during the draft.
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ESPN will reportedly make significant changes to Get Up if ratings don’t improve by football season
ESPN’s morning show Get Up has not gotten off to the start anyone in Bristol hoped it would. Ratings were low right from the start and haven’t improved much since. According to @DidGetUpGet300K, a Twitter account dedicated entirely to tracking how many people watch Get Up, the show has cracked 300,000 viewers only nine times in 41 shows. Whether because of narratives around the show, competition with SportsCenter on ESPN2 or the actual content of the program, Get Up isn’t finding an audience, isn’t generating buzz and certainly isn’t justifying its massive cost and rollout.
Per Michael McCarthy of Sporting News, the network has circled September 6, the start of the NFL season, as the date by which Get Up must turn around its ratings. If things don’t improve by then, McCarthy reports, ESPN brass could make some dramatic changes, including to the show’s cast.
The Hollywood Reporter has previously revealed Greenberg, Beadle and Rose are making a combined annual salary of $14.5 million ($6.5 million for Greenberg; $5 million for Beadle; and $3 million for Rose).
That went over like a lead balloon on the ESPN campus in Bristol, where hundreds of anchors, analysts, reporters and producers have been laid off in recent years.
Multiple sources tell Awful Announcing that ESPN has instructed its reporters to refrain from revealing picks on social media before they’re announced at Thursday’s draft, breaking with how the network has operated in the past. Previously, ESPN’s crew of insiders (or at least the ones who didn’t appear on the draft broadcast) has been free to report NBA Draft picks as soon as they learn of them.
The source said ESPN’s directive not to tip picks this year was presented as an edict from the NBA itself.
Additionally, a source told Awful Announcing that other NBA partners, including Turner Sports and Yahoo (which is newly owned by Verizon), will also not tip picks during the draft.
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ESPN will reportedly make significant changes to Get Up if ratings don’t improve by football season
ESPN’s morning show Get Up has not gotten off to the start anyone in Bristol hoped it would. Ratings were low right from the start and haven’t improved much since. According to @DidGetUpGet300K, a Twitter account dedicated entirely to tracking how many people watch Get Up, the show has cracked 300,000 viewers only nine times in 41 shows. Whether because of narratives around the show, competition with SportsCenter on ESPN2 or the actual content of the program, Get Up isn’t finding an audience, isn’t generating buzz and certainly isn’t justifying its massive cost and rollout.
Per Michael McCarthy of Sporting News, the network has circled September 6, the start of the NFL season, as the date by which Get Up must turn around its ratings. If things don’t improve by then, McCarthy reports, ESPN brass could make some dramatic changes, including to the show’s cast.
The Hollywood Reporter has previously revealed Greenberg, Beadle and Rose are making a combined annual salary of $14.5 million ($6.5 million for Greenberg; $5 million for Beadle; and $3 million for Rose).
That went over like a lead balloon on the ESPN campus in Bristol, where hundreds of anchors, analysts, reporters and producers have been laid off in recent years.
